After a full day of traveling, Alex and I woke up at 0300 and started on the 3 mile walk to the Chestnut-capped Piha reserve.
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Birding Colombia: Rio Blanco, Nevado Ruiz, and Rio Claro
Rio Blanco is widely known as one of the best birding spots in all of Colombia. Set up at a reserve protecting the watershed for
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Birding Colombia: Mid-Magdalena Valley, Tolima, and Fuerte’s Parrots!
Continuing on my Colombian bird-finding quest, I managed to cover A LOT of ground in 4 days and was lucky enough to find some very good
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Birding Colombia: Ocana and the Cerulean Warbler Reserve
The trip to Ocana started out as expected–I boarded the night bus at 2100 in Santa Marta and started on my 7 ½ hour trip
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Oxypogon in the Sky: A Search for One of the World’s Rarest Hummingbirds
Bird extinction is on the rise. As habitat destruction, introduced predators, and avian disease wreak havoc on birds around the world, conservationists have continued to
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Birding Colombia: Exploring the Perija Mountains and Santa Marta
Everything was set….or so I thought. With the local guide in the Santa Marta mountains not being available for a few more days, Sebastian and
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Birding Colombia: The Caribbean Coast & Minca
As a student who gets a significant amount of time off for winter break, I decided to use this extended amount of time and visit
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Mexico – Part 2. After the Wedding – August 12-20, 2016
My trip to Mexico started August 12th at Secrets Silversands Resort in Riveria Maya, while Ross headed down to Mexico on August 11th to do
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Mexico – Part 1: Before the Wedding – August 11-15, 2016
Our trip to Mexico can be broken down into two parts, “Before the Wedding” and “After the Wedding” because had it not been for a
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Mindanao: Birding an island of megas
After two weeks of birding in the Philippines, it was time to head to the last island of the trip, Mindanao. Before my early morning
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